Acute febrile disease with splenomegaly and pancytopenia: A 66 year old Greek patient with a prosthetic mitral valve;Akute fieberhafte erkrankung mit splenomegalie und panzytopenie: 66-jähriger griechischer patient mit mitralklappenprothese

Internist

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 731-736

  Hoffmann Tonn, K ^a   Geis, S ^b   Peckelsen, C ^a   Berna, G ^a   Fleischmann, E ^b   Bretzel, G ^b   Loscher T ^b  

^a Krankenhaus Harlaching   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leishmania PCR; Mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis; Pancytopenia; Splenomegaly; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDITIS; FEVER; GREECE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEROLOGY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GERMANY; GREECE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPLENOMEGALY; TRAVEL;

EID: 38849146483     PISSN: 00209554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00108-007-1873-2     Document Type: Article

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